Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdelis an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth10 September 1960
CountryUnited States of America
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
She has given me a way out.
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.